Scott Scurlock Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

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Scott Scurlock was an American bank robber and fugitive who was active in the Pacific Northwest during the early 1990s. He was born on March 5, 1955 in Reston, Virginia. He was the son of a military officer and grew up in a middle-class family. Scurlock attended the University of Washington, where he studied business and finance. After graduating, he worked as a stockbroker in Seattle. In the late 1980s, he began to experience financial difficulties and began to rob banks to support himself. Between 1989 and 1992, Scurlock robbed at least 15 banks in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. He was known for his polite demeanor and his preference for robbing small, rural banks. He was dubbed the "Gentleman Bandit" by the media. In 1992, Scurlock was arrested and charged with bank robbery. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but was released after serving only five. After his release, he moved to Mexico and lived there until his death in 2002. At the time of his death, Scurlock was 47 years old. He was unmarried and had no children.

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Scurlock, who bore a striking resemblance to Mel Gibson, was popular with friends that he referred to as "his tribe," who would do almost anything for him. Scurlock hired Steve Meyers — Kevin's brother, a successful sculptor who was struggling after a bitter divorce — to come to Washington and do work on his treehouse. Steve Meyers transformed it and said that when he arrived, "there was nothing in the house that was conscientiously designed, that's very much what Scott was like ..." Scurlock had an open and free demeanor and is videotaped extensively in the buff. He traveled extensively, had no shortage of girlfriends, and enjoyed the finest restaurants and champagne; he was known by local waitresses to always leave a $100 tip.

By the end of 1995, Scurlock had stolen almost one million dollars. The FBI did notice a pattern and figured that Scurlock needed about $20,000 per month. They were able to determine this by noticing the pattern of his robberies, which seemed to be based around how much money he absconded within any given robbery. With this information, they were able to determine when he would rob the next bank and made an educated guess as to which bank it would be. Their guess on the date, January 25, 1996, was exact but they surveilled a bank that was about two miles away from the actual bank he robbed and didn't arrive at the robbery scene in time.

By mid-1996, Scurlock, with Biggins and Meyers, had robbed two more banks. That came to 17 banks in four years. The FBI put a $50,000 reward on the capture of the robber, thinking at the time that there was only one person involved. The reward signs showed a sketch of the robber that looked nothing like Scurlock.

On the final bank robbery attempt, the threesome, emboldened by the reward on Scurlock, planned on robbing five banks on the same night. According to Steve Meyers, they even had a "mobile base station set up to white out the police frequencies." But after learning that the police had convinced every bank in Seattle to put electronic tracers in with any stolen money, they scaled back the plans and decided to rob just one bank. On a rainy dark Thanksgiving eve, 1996, at around 5:30 pm they hit the Seafirst Bank, which they learned was going to have $3–$4 million on hand that day. They escaped in one car and changed to a white van to throw off police. They then started digging frantically through the money looking for the electronic tracers.

In 1993, Steve Meyers became a look-out for Scurlock. Meyers monitored a police scanner, and when any 911 calls came in about the robbery, he would call Scurlock out of the bank. The duo used many tricks to throw off police and even paid off bank employees to find out information that would aid them in the robberies. Scurlock convinced Mark Biggins to forget the first bank-robbing debacle and help him and Steve with the robberies. Biggins became an in-bank lookout watching Scurlock's back. Steve, on 48 Hours, praised Scurlock for his professional approach, saying, "His whole point was if you go in crazy with violence and waving a gun and something does happen, what do you do then? Most people working in banks realize that this guy is not afraid. That is more frightening and commanding without having to be crazy." Meyers also said that they robbed two of the banks three times each. Due to Scurlock's knowledge of police work, police were concerned that it could be a police officer committing the robberies.

On June 25, 1992, Scurlock and Biggins robbed their first bank. It didn't go well. The duo had planned to take a car from someone in the bank as their get-away vehicle, which they did, but Biggins was so nervous that he flooded the engine. They then had to run on foot encountering vicious dogs and running across a golf course where they left confused golfers and witnesses. After the fiasco, Biggins didn't want to be involved with bank robbery and "quit." However, Scurlock loved the adrenaline rush and continued to rob banks on his own. He asked his friend Kevin Meyers to help and offered him $250,000 for one job. Meyers declined knowing it would only corrupt his goal to become an artist.

In 1992, Scurlock robbed six banks, leaving little or no clues for the FBI, who subsequently gave him the pseudonym "Hollywood" for his theatrical make-up worn during the robberies. Scurlock had plenty of banks to choose from, all with plenty of cash due to the growing high tech industries in the Seattle, Washington area which turned the locale into a money pit.

Scurlock dropped out of school due to the money the drug business was making for him. That ended in 1989 when Scurlock's main distributor was murdered. As a result, Scurlock decided that the drug business was too dangerous and quit immediately. When asked by a friend about his (Scurlock's) biggest priority being money, he replied, "No, no. All that does is let you live life a little easier." However, Scurlock had to have an income so he needed to come up with another solution.

It was here, in 1978, that he enrolled at Evergreen State College where he dreamed of becoming a doctor. He excelled in college, including chemistry classes. It was a result of this that Scurlock began sneaking into the school chemistry lab at night through the ceilings to make methamphetamines, which he subsequently sold. With the money he made dealing meth, he was able to buy twenty acres of secluded land near Olympia that had a small house on it. He used the house for meth production and built a three-story treehouse on the property, which he bragged he and others built in only two weeks, working day and night "due to being high on meth." The treehouse included an extra-large fireplace, outdoor bathtub, and an emergency escape using rope lines to zip through the woods.

In 1974, Scurlock moved to Hawaii from Virginia and reunited with his friend Kevin Meyers, who went to the University of Hawaii on a full pole-vault scholarship. After Meyers's pole vault scholarship ended, Meyers and Scurlock moved to the North Shore of Oahu, living on a five-acre tomato farm. They worked in Honolulu for Hawaii Plant Life four days a week and the rest they spent out on the North Shore. It was paradise. In 1976, while hiking, Scurlock and Meyers came across a small marijuana farm. Scurlock and Meyers came back and took a number of marijuana plants which Scott subsequently sold. Scurlock hadn't planned on being involved in the drug trade after that but, liking the easy money he made, planted his own marijuana plants hidden on the tomato farm. When their landlord at the tomato farm found out, Scott was kicked off the property and Meyers moved to Banff National Park, Canada soon thereafter. Scurlock left Hawaii and moved to Olympia, Washington.

Scott Scurlock (March 5, 1955 – November 28, 1996) born William Scott Scurlock in Fairfax County, Virginia was the son of a minister. He was nicknamed the Hollywood Bandit (or simply Hollywood). He got this nickname from his involvement in bank robberies in the Seattle area during the 1990s during which he used acting makeup and disguises. Using Hollywood quality make-up he successfully robbed 17 banks. His last attempt ended in a police shootout with Scurlock escaping the scene. His two accomplices were captured and one gave Scurlock up. He eventually shot himself in the head as FBI agents waited outside a trailer he was holed up in and called out to him to surrender.